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Fanciulli

After dinner/digestif · Bittersweet (e.g. Negroni) · Classic/vintage

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Ingredients

3/4 oz Rye whiskey 50% abv
3/4 oz Bourbon whiskey
3/4 oz Rosso/sweet vermouth
1/4 oz Fernet liqueur
3 drop Saline solution 4:1

How to make

Serve in a nick & nora glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
  2. 6 Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

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Flavour profile

50.0% alc./vol. · 1.6 standard drinks · 157 calories

History

A Manhattan with extra bitters. Challenging for some, but a delicious digestivo for others.

This drink is adapted from a recipe in Albert Stevens Crockett's 1931 book, Old Waldorf Bar Days. The name 'Fanciulli' is Italian slang for 'boys'. Crockett's book suggests this cocktail might be named for performers in Puccini's opera La Fanciulla del West, but he dismisses this theory because the cocktail predates the opera. Its inclusion in Crockett's book indicates the cocktail originated at the Waldorf. The hotel's former bar manager, Frank Caiafa, believes it was named after Francesco Fanciulli, a band leader and composer who settled in New York City in 1892 after leading the US Marine Band. FANCIULLI Some recollections that are not musical suggest an Italian opera of that name. However, Solon believes a jokester bestowed the title, wanting to offer "the boys" a new cocktail and naming it after them without their knowledge. It is reasonably certain that it was not a misprint for "Fanciulla del West" – Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West" – as its origin considerably predates the opera's premiere at the Metropolitan on December 10, 1910. Fanciulli is the word used to mean "the boys" along the Tiber and near Vesuvius. One-fourth Fernet Branca One-fourth Italian Vermuth One-half Whiskey